There are two ways to look at labels. One way is to be like Michael Jordan, who considers them an annoyance. (Think of his Hanes underwear commercials.) The opposite viewpoint is to acknowledge that properly labeled wires ensure correct installation and high performance in harnesses and electrical panels.
Consider, for example, the challenge of labeling all the harnesses that get installed on a ship. Until two years ago, one U.S. shipbuilder relied on a two-printer label printing system featuring software that required manual entry of information to transfer it onto five sizes of heat-shrink tubing (HST). This system was time-consuming, labor-intensive and wasted many labels due to printing errors.